Illegal or Not..

[0TransAm0]

so i was driving threw Boucher Chevy's lot Sunday in Racine on hwy 20. and noticed this POS junk truck pull in. had a AD on the back tailgate. "will take scrap, free pick up"

and i thought to myself damn they are going to steal whatever scrap is out back... about 5 min go by and i decide to take a drive around back.. 2 guys had the truck backed up to the FENCED IN area with 2 huge dumpsters and they are chucking brake rotors into the back of the truck like i throw a tennis ball for the dog.. as i drove past they kinda ducked behind as if i didn't see what they were doing..
i didn't get a plate or call the cops.

what would you have done? thoughts?

[Holeshot]

Garbage picking is actually illegal. If they don't have permission its considered theft.

[Neal Steffek]

Many places of busness dont care if you take the junk as long as you dont make a mess. It is recycaling that they dont have to do.

[0TransAm0]

Many places of busness dont care if you take the junk as long as you dont make a mess. It is recycaling that they dont have to do.

yeah but don't they make money on the scrap? why else would it be fenced in.. i would think that they want the metal as any money they make on it is better than none.

[Plum Crazy]

we have a scrap dumpster out back and have caught several guys digging thru it and called the cops. Also popular is dumping/stealing junk tires from out back.

[SSLEVO]

If it's in a scrap bin they most likely are getting paid for it. I don't think they would endorse such behavior.

[jakedrew]

I work at a sheet metal factory and believe it or not we have trouble with people dumping random stuff in our scrap bins. Sometimes I find exhaust set ups, swing sets and random metal. That is helping us I guess as it is in the misc. metal one. haha.

[MoCkiN U]

our spare scrap steel is stored inside cause it is revenue for us in a small way to fund parties and cookouts for the techs and such

[Exitspeed]

Psssht, that aint' shit. When I was in Detroit last year we went and did some urban exploring at the old Packard plant. 3.5 million sq feet of abandonment. While we where there there was a group of guys literally cutting the steel OFF THE BUILDING with a plasma cutter or some shit. It was actually an old collapsed roof structure that was made out of steel. They were just cutting it up and throwing it in the back of the truck. As you walk around you see evidence of this happening everywhere.

[hrsp]

Psssht, that aint' shit. When I was in Detroit last year we went and did some urban exploring at the old Packard plant. 3.5 million sq feet of abandonment. While we where there there was a group of guys literally cutting the steel OFF THE BUILDING with a plasma cutter or some shit. It was actually an old collapsed roof structure that was made out of steel. They were just cutting it up and throwing it in the back of the truck. As you walk around you see evidence of this happening everywhere.

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[GHOSST]

Now thats just ridiculous. Its like the new gold rush. Or scrap rush.

[70 cutlass 442]

that is illeagle... most of thoes scrap metal bins are left by salvage companies, scrap goes in, they are then picked up every so often and then are paid for the weight of the scrap material.

[TheRX7Project]

Psssht, that aint' shit. When I was in Detroit last year we went and did some urban exploring at the old Packard plant. 3.5 million sq feet of abandonment. While we where there there was a group of guys literally cutting the steel OFF THE BUILDING with a plasma cutter or some shit. It was actually an old collapsed roof structure that was made out of steel. They were just cutting it up and throwing it in the back of the truck. As you walk around you see evidence of this happening everywhere.

Dateline (or 60 Mins or whatever) actually did a show about this a while back. They said that the old Packard plant is so structurally unstable from the combination of people looting it and natural deterioration, that if there is a fire in the building, the fire department is not allowed to fight it and is instructed to simply let it burn out.

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/22253549/detail.html

[SSScottSS]

They were stealing.

[GTSLOW]

Dateline (or 60 Mins or whatever) actually did a show about this a while back. They said that the old Packard plant is so structurally unstable from the combination of people looting it and natural deterioration, that if there is a fire in the building, the fire department is not allowed to fight it and is instructed to simply let it burn out.

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/22253549/detail.html

Oh it's been like that for quite a while. If IRC there's a few buildings in Detroit that they would burn to the ground.

[TheRX7Project]

^^ That's insane. But I suppose, huge, vacant buildings + high unemployment...

[0TransAm0]

Would you guys have called the cops or just let them be? i did nothing. thinking i should have called the cops but oh well. they will get caught sooner or later.

[Windsors 03 Cobra]

I always have a cell on me and I wouldnt have called.
And even tho you did not see anyone. Do not worry you little head as there was someone inside that building, like a security technician, he probably called the fuzz.
Scrap get stole everywhere, in fact in darn near any place if you leave something worth something laying around sooner or later someones gone take it.

Racine: atleast we're not Detroit. :)

[SSLEVO]

I did an internship at a shop in MN that cut large aircraft parts. There were a bunch of 100+ lb aluminum drops that were stolen from a locked fenced in area multiple times. We got them on camera but were never able to find them.